Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 9

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  Roman bust of Nero, now at the Glyptothek in Munich
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  Charles Kingsford Smith
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  Southern Cross landing in Brisbane
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  Burning of Gaspee
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  William Jennings Bryan
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  Meadow Stables racing colors
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  David Ortiz

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Blurb	Reason
Feast day of Saint Columba (Christianity)	lots of CN tags (7)
AD 68 – Roman emperor Nero committed suicide after he was deposed by the Senate.	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
1667 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Dutch began the Raid on the Medway, attacking the largest English naval ships in the dockyards of their main naval base near Chatham.	refimprove section
1732 – James Oglethorpe was granted a royal charter for the Province of Georgia between the Savannah and Altamaha rivers.	refimprove section
1815 – The Congress of Vienna ended, redrawing the political map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon.	Lots of unreferenced material
1873 – Sixteen days after it was built, Alexandra Palace in North London was destroyed by fire.	outdated, refimprove section
1885 – In the peace treaty signed to end the Sino-French War, Qing forces withdrew from Tonkin, allowing France to occupy it and Annam (most of present-day Vietnam).	Treaty: unreferenced section; War: refimprove section
1923 – Bulgarian armed forces overthrew the government of the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union headed by Aleksandar Stamboliyski and replaced it with one under Aleksandar Tsankov.	refimprove
1934 – Donald Duck debuted in The Wise Little Hen.	refimprove section
1946 – After King Ananda Mahidol was fatally shot, Bhumibol Adulyadej ascended to the throne of Thailand, becoming the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history.	multiple issues
1972 – A dam outside Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S., became clogged with debris and failed, resulting in 238 deaths, 3,057 injuries, and over Template:Nowrap in damage.	unreferenced section
George Stephenson |b|1781	refimprove sections
* 411 BC – Wealthy Athenians overthrew the democratic government of ancient Athens, replacing it with a short-lived oligarchy known as the Four Hundred.	Principal source does not have page numbers noted

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• 747 – Abu Muslim initiated an open revolt against Umayyad rule, eventually leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate under the Black Standard.
• 1523 – Parisian printer Simon de Colines was fined for printing biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples without obtaining prior approval from theologians.
• 1856 – The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Iowa City for Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson concluded his successful Shenandoah Valley campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.
• 1863 – American Civil War: Union and Confederate forces fought the Battle of Brandy Station, the largest cavalry engagement to take place on American soil.
• 1915 – Unhappy with U.S. president Woodrow Wilson's handling of the Template:RMS sinking, William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State.
• 1954 – During hearings investigating conflicting accusations between the United States Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy, Army lawyer Joseph N. Welch asked McCarthy: "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
• 1965 – Fighting began between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War.
• 1973 – The racehorse Secretariat, of Meadow Stables (racing colors pictured), won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, achieving the first American Triple Crown victory in a quarter of a century.
• 1982 – Lebanon War: The Israeli Air Force carried out Operation Mole Cricket 19, successfully suppressing Syrian air defenses in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon.
• 2010 – A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 others.
• 2019 – Dominican-American retired baseball player David Ortiz was shot and severely wounded while at a bar in Santo Domingo.
• Born/died this day: | Claudia Octavia |d|AD 62| Peter des Roches |d|1238| Ambrogio Lorenzetti |d|1348| [[Władysław IV Vasa|Template:Nowrap Vasa]] |b|1595| Sarah Rapelje |d|1625| Susanna Paine |b|1792| William Feiner |d|1829| Emma Louisa Turner |b|1867| Jane Avril |b|1868| Sarah Roberts |d|1913| Hein Eersel |b|1922| Princess Helena of the United Kingdom |d|1923| Victoria Woodhull |d|1927| Michael J. Fox |b|1961| Heather Mitts |b|1978| Natalie Portman |b|1981| Sonam Kapoor |b|1985| Wolfdietrich Schnurre |d|1989| Brian Williamson |d|2004| Iain Banks |d|2013| Pik-Sen Lim |d|2025|

Notes

• Battle of Cross Keys appears on June 8, so Jackson's Valley Campaign should not appear in the same year

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• 1549 – The first Book of Common Prayer was legally mandated by Parliament, introducing a fully vernacular Protestant liturgy to the Church of England.
• 1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American colonists led by Abraham Whipple (pictured) attacked and burned the British schooner Gaspee.
• 1928 – Australian aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and his crew landed the Southern Cross in Brisbane, completing the first transpacific flight.
• 1999 – Yugoslav Wars: The Kumanovo Agreement was signed, bringing an end to the Kosovo War the next day.